theozfiles

Research, investigations & commentary from Bill Chalker, author of "The OZ Files - the Australian UFO Story" (1996), "Hair of the Alien - DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions" (2005) and Australian chapter author of the UFO History Group's foundational reference work "UFOs and Government" (2012)

Thursday, April 26, 2007

THE GRAY ALIENS 1963!

Recently in the library of Sydney fringe culture collector Jamie Leonarder I came across a title that caught my attention. It was a 1964 English paperback entitled "The Grey Aliens" (Mayflower UK) by J. Hunter Holly. It was originally published in the US as "The Gray Aliens" in 1963 by Avalon Books. It was a science fiction novel with a strange alien abduction twist. People were being taken by "the shadows - the grey aliens! The ghost makers". Well the novel was readable, but I was more interested in the title - "The Gray Aliens". The term "gray alien" is iconic in UFO alien lore, but the grays of UFO encounters were generally understood by researchers to be a more recent manifestation largely sharing the chronological trajectory of alien abduction claims - becoming most prominent during the 1980s. The now familiar gray alien appearance while hinted at in some of the earlier entity encounters of the fifties, sixties and even the seventies, did not seem to emerge out of the shadows in full iconic gray form until the 1980s. Earlier encounters described retrospectively seem to include the "grays" but in a contemporary sense with books like "The Humanoids" edited by Charles Bowen (1969) and "Flying Saucer Occupants" by Coral and Jim Lorenzen (1967) descriptions that fully equate to the current imagery of the grays are missing. Why?

About Me

Coordinator of the Sydney based UFO Investigation Centre (UFOIC) & the Anomaly Physical Evidence Group (APEG). Information about sightings and research are most welcome.
Author of "The OZ Files - the Australian UFO Story" (1996), "Hair of the Alien - DNA and other forensic evidence of alien abduction" (2005), and "UFO History Keys - Examining the UFO controversy from a historical perspective" (2011). Enquiries via billozfiles@tpg.com.au or P.O. Box 42, West Pennant Hills, NSW, 2125, AUSTRALIA. In "HAIR of the ALIEN" (order via www.amazon.com) my primary focus is promoting a forensic scientific approach to examining the alien abduction controversy, concentrating on the DNA approach where compelling biological evidence is available.